Why I hate Januarys at the gym

I'm really good about working out. With few exceptions, I go to the gym every day after trading and try to work out at least one day over the weekend.

Part of why I go is to stay in shape, but I think it helps me a lot business-wise as the exercise helps me release excess energy so I can really focus on the tasks at hand when needed.

Because there's always too much to do each day and yet I insist on going to the gym, I've devised a laser-focused 20 minute workout that I follow. It's nothing too fancy.. .. it's mainly that I go from machine to machine to machine with no breaks in between (many people do a similar routine but it takes them twice as long since they take breaks in between each rep and/or machine).

Anyway, what this means for me is that January's are nightmares. Why? Because every January, the gyms are full. And this means that I can't quickly go from machine to machine to machine because I have to wait for others who are using the equipment.

This happens because every year, tons of people make New Year's resolutions to go to the gym more. So, in early January, the gym is full of these "resolutionists." Fortunately, by February, they're usually gone and it's back to normal.

The reason I tell you about this is that it's incredible how much this mirrors trading and investing.

To begin, trading, like weightlifting and exercising, only works if you do it everyday. You don't get strong working out like crazy for one month and then relaxing the rest of the year. Rather you need to put in 10 minutes a day to realize an impact (yes you can still take a few vacations per year, I teach my students how to manage their trades while gone).

Investing on the other hand can be done only a few hours per year, but that will not generate the type of returns that more active trading can generate. By active I don't mean 8 hours per day trading your life away. I mean only 10 minutes per night with my system.

Also, in weightlifting, if you don't know what you are doing, you will have poor form and you will most likely hurt yourself. In trading, if you don't know what you are doing, you will also hurt yourself and your account by failing to ride the trends and cut your losses.

Unlike in the gym example, all the "resolutionists" HELP YOUR CHANCES of success. At the gym, the "resolutionists" hurt me be using my machines and thus slowing me down. But in trading I need losers to be winner.

It is said that trading is a zero sum game, which it's not. It's a negative sum game because you must also account for commissions and slippage. Therefore I am happy that lots of others don't know what they are doing. Happy in a general sense, not for you personally. I don't want you to be one of the ones I make money off of when you fail. And fail you will without a proper trading system.

I wish I could tell you that trading was fun. But I can't. I wish I could tell you that it was easy. But I can't do that either. Like weightlifting, it's neither fun nor easy, but once you learn how to do it, and you repeatedly do it right over a period of time, you can succeed and the rewards far outweigh the costs.

What is fun is not getting nervous when the market crashes because you have a plan and are not trading emotionally.

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